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gert buelens, ernst rudin, eds.
deferring a dream : literary sub-versions of the american columbiad
basel : birkhäuser, 1994

 


contents

Introduction    

ix

GayIe Wurst   Ben Franklin in Harlem: The Drama of Deferral in Ann Petry's The Street   

1

Robert Shulman   Subverting and Reconstructing the Dream: The Radical Voices of Le Sueur, Herbst, and Wright

24

Aranzazu Usandizaga   Two Versions of the American Dream: Mary Antin's The Promised Land and Agnes Smedley's Daughter of Earth

37

Otto Heim   Supplement to the Voyage of Columbus: Literary Voyages of (Un-) Discovery in the South Pacific

48

Giovanna Covi    Jamaica Kincaid's Voyage of Recovery: The Cliffs of Dover are Not White

76

Judith Raiskin    7 Days/6 Nights at "Plantation Estates": A Critique of Cultural Colonialism by Caribbean Writers

85

Hans Bak    The Kaleidoscope of History: Michael Don-is and Louise Erdrich's The Crown of Columbus (with a coda on Gerald Vizenor's The Heirs of Columbus)

99

Jeanne Perreault      New Dreaming: Joy Harjo, Wendy Rose, Leslie Marmon Silko

120

List of Contributors

137

Index

139